Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-05-13
ORIGINll AND BORROWED.

ranging to start a 100000 cotton
factory at Roanoke, Va.
A skilled workman is rarely out
ofa job. Young men should re-
member this. Learn a good trade,
and you will always have employ
ment at good wages.
An account is given Of young
man in Lincoln, Cal, who is pos
sessed Of eyes peculiarly resembling
those of an owl. His sight is i'm.
perfect IN daylight, but in the dark
est night he readily distinguishes
objects entirely invisible to ordina-
r. eyes.
Here is a sample Of the working
ola big real estate boom IN Kansas :
IAN eastern man who recently
went to Topeka was taken a long
distance into the country by a real
estate agent who began showing a
number Of Topeka lots "Are we
still in Topekal7 the stranger ask
ed, looking around over the prairie.
"Oh yes, this locality is convenient
70 business the agent answered.
al was IN Wichita the other day"
the stranger continued, "and l am
sure was offered these same lots
as a part of Wichita. that is the
reason inquired if we were in To
peka.'
"Only three Presidents before
Mr.. Cleveland, says the>Washing'
ton Stqr, shave had the pleasure OF
celebrating their semi-centennials
while in that Office. There were
James X. Polk, Franklin Pierce,
and Gen. Grant. James A. Gar
field would have been fifty years old
had Guiteau's bullet been a month
later in concluding its fatal work.
President Cleveland has the adyaU-
tage in years Of many Of his prede-
cessors. Washington was fifty
seven when he was inalgurated,
John Adams sixty.twO, Jefferson,
Madison, and John Quincy Adams
ffty.eight; Monroe was ffty-nine,
Jackson sixty.two, Van Buren, fifty
five. and Harrison Sixty-eight. Gen.
Grant was the youngest and Har-
rison the oldest of the Presidents
Edward hen, millionaire tobac-
conist of New York city, has died,
aud, by his will, cut all his sons OIL
without a dollar. No cause is as
signed for the act, but it is suspect
ed that they crOwed too much over
what they expected TO receive, and
the cautious Hen preferred that
they should scratch little for their
living.
\ telegram to the Richmond DIS
patch from Farmville says: \
dreadful affair happened at Cum
berland Courthouse late Thursday
evening. a negro man Tom Ar
INSTEAD imprisoned for burglary
was picking at the wall with a
chisel, trying to effect al escape.
As Deputy Sheriff Agee started in
the door 70 take the chisel away
from him he drew ont a large knife
and gave Agee deep wound in the
arm. King Adams and Common
wealth's Attorney Lancaster ran to
the rescue, when the negro gave
Adams several deep wounds in the
lung aud breast, and cut Lancaster
IN the abdomen and let his bowels
out. Sheriff Armistead and Mr.
Flanagan ran up, and sheriff Ar
instead succeeded in getting in a
blow on the negro's head, knock
ing him senseless. Adams and
Lancaster are in a critical condi-
ton.
Gen. ThOs. L. ROsser, Of Confed-
crate Cavalry fame, and leading
Democrat, says:
~ am frank to say that Virginia
aud North Carolina are lost TO us.
They will be surely Republican in
the next presidential contest The
principal reason given is that "the
people are thoroughly dissatisfied
With the work of the last House Of
Representatives. They expected
70 see the tariff revised, the tObac-
co tax removed. the Educational
bin passed and 4 distribution of
some Of the surplus for internal
improvements. They we're disap-
pointed in everything. They got
no tariff revision, no repeal OF the
tobacco tax, and no aid for The pub
lie schools: and when Congress
managed TO squeeze out little
River and HarbOT bill so as to give
them a few picklngs down there,
the President killed it with pocket
veto. That's the story in a nut.
shell. We have lost Virginia and
North Carolina; the Solid South
is broken, and probably II will
never be- solid again
AS 70 the Presidential contest he
says
1--WE are already beaten. There
is no prospect at all that Ye can
win ia the next contest. Two or
more of DOR Southern States will
surely be Republican, and with the
labor developments of the past year
it is easy to see that we cannot car
ry New York. That of course de
feats u.s.
Placed In His Coffin Alive,
A special from Vincennes, Ind,
says that during the session of the
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